Continuing
the tactic of using education to alter the (religious) values of society
mentioned in Part 3, John R. Rees of the Tavistock Institute for Medical
Psychology delivered a speech on June 18, 1940 (MENTAL HEALTH,
October 1940) in which he explained regarding mental health professionals:
“Public life, politics, and industry should all of them be within
our sphere of influence…. We have made a useful attack upon a
number of professions. The two easiest of them naturally are the teaching
profession and the church….” To the PE, perhaps the major
obstacle to the implementation of their plan was the concept of moral
absolutes (right vs. wrong) as taught by the church. Furthering the
“attack” (Rees’ term) upon these values via education,
Brock Chisholm (head of the World Health Organization and close friend
of Communist spy Alger Hiss) published an article in the February 1946
edition of PSYCHIATRY, in which he revealed their strategy
that “a program of re-education or a new kind of education”
needed to be charted to “help our children to carry out their
responsibilities as world citizens…. We have swallowed all manner
of poisonous certainties fed us by our parents, our Sunday and day school
teachers, our politicians, our priests…. The reinterpretation
and eventual eradication of the concept of right and wrong…, the
substitution of intelligent and rational thinking for faith in the certainties
of old people, these are the belated objectives… for charting
the changes in human behavior.”

Secular humanist
leader John Dewey’s greatest influence was through Columbia University’s
Teachers College. By the mid-1950s, this college was producing about
1/3rd of the presidents and deans at accredited teacher training institutions,
about 20 percent of all public school teachers, and over 1/4th of the
superintendents of schools in the largest 168 cities in the U.S. By
the early 1960s, Dewey’s “progressive” education was
in almost every school in the land.

The next step for
the PE, of course, was to rid these schools (as Orestes Brownson said)
of the influence of THE HOLY BIBLE and prayer. This came with
the Supreme Court’s banning of Bible reading and school prayer
in Engel vs. Vital (1962) and Abington vs. Schempp
(1963).

With these two
underpinnings of American society banned, the values still taught in
the public schools were determined by the morally autonomous decisionmaking
of individual students, which is an important characteristic of Dewey’s
secular humanism. Expressing this philosophy was education leader Ted
Sizer in his (co-authored with his wife, Nancy) Introduction to FIVE
LECTURES… ON MORAL EDUCATION (1970), in which he declared:
“Christian sermonizing denies individual autonomy…. No longer
can we list… objective ‘truths’ about the world and
expect children to take them over intact…. Clearly the strict
adherence to a ‘code’ is out of date.” This was critically
important to the success of the PE’s plan because, as President
Abraham Lincoln explained, “The philosophy of the classroom in
one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.”

Three years later,
the second atheistic HUMANIST MANIFESTO was published, and
the Supreme Court handed down the baby-killing Roe v. Wade decision
allowing abortions. The decision could easily have been undone by Congress
simply limiting the federal courts’ jurisdiction in this matter,
but this has not been done even by today, which shows how the once-Biblical
morality of the people has been severely weakened.

The attack upon
our traditional values has covered many aspects of our lives. In the
November 14, 1981 edition of The Nation, feminist activist
Ellen Willis wrote that “feminism is… the cutting edge of
a revolution in cultural and moral values…. The objective of every
feminist reform, from legal abortion to the ERA to child-care programs,
is to undermine traditional family values….”

In the 1980s, elementary
school children in several large school systems were taught the theme
from the TV show “MASH,” which is “Suicide Is Painless”
with lyrics proclaiming that “cheating is the only way to win,
the game of life is lost anyway, and suicide is painless.” And
in 1987, two federal appeals court rulings continued to undermine Biblical
values. On August 24 of that year, an appeals court overturned Judge
Brevard Hand’s decision that the religion of secular humanism
was being taught via certain Alabama textbooks, for example, teaching
students they should make their own decisions about whether to shoplift
or illegally buy drugs. And two days later, another appeals court overturned
Judge Thomas Hull’s ruling, and said Tennessee students could
be required to read prayers to idols and be taught that Jesus was an
illiterate.

By 1990, a Girl
Scouts survey found that 65% of high school students would cheat on
an important exam. On January 22 of the same year, on NBC’s “Today
Show,” Dr. Michael Lewis of the New Jersey Robert Wood Johnson
Medical School said, “Lying is an important part of social life,
and children who are unable to do it are children who may have developmental
problems.” The “Today Show” host didn’t challenge
this outrageous claim!

The next year,
James Patterson’s and Peter Kim’s THE DAY AMERICA TOLD
THE TRUTH—WHAT PEOPLE REALLY BELIEVE ABOUT EVERYTHING THAT REALLY
MATTERS was published and detailed poll results showing Americans
are “making up their own moral codes” (this is what Sizer
said would happen). The polls further showed 9 of 10 citizens reported
that they lie regularly, one-third of all married Americans indicating
they’ve had an affair, and 7% saying that for $10 million dollars
they would kill a stranger! Patterson’s and Kim’s survey
also found one in five women saying they had been date-raped, but this
shouldn’t be surprising given that characters like Luke on “General
Hospital,” Ross on “All My Children,” and John on
“As The World Turns” all raped women and became heroes later
on these soap operas.

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The assault upon
Biblical values continued through the 1990s and up to today, as the
consciousness of the country is being changed. Recently, there have
been TV ads for country music live songs of the 1970s and 1980s, including
Barbara Mandrell singing that if loving a particular man is wrong, she
doesn’t want to be right; and Kenny Rogers sings a duet saying
they don’t need tomorrow if they have tonight. The implications
of such songs are clear. There are several good songs, like Marty Robbins
singing “My Woman, My Woman, My Wife.” But those are greatly
outnumbered by songs such as “Heaven’s Just a Sin Away.”
If the airwaves have pounded people’s minds for decades with messages
like these, should the moral degeneration that has occurred be surprising
to anyone?

Americans have
also accepted presidents who have lied to them and who have not stopped
the massive killings by abortion. To the extent that Americans have
rejected the Word of God in these matters, they have instead followed
Adam Weishaupt’s (and Lucifer’s) immoral teaching “Do
what thou wilt.” Relevant to this, Luciferian Alice Bailey said
in 1933 that according to “The Plan,” the World Federation
of Nations would be “taking rapid shape” by 2025. And this
will result in the fulfillment of the PE’s ultimate goal of a
secular humanist World Socialist Government not too long afterwards.

Dennis Laurence Cuddy, historian
and political analyst, received a Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill (major in American History, minor in political science).
Dr. Cuddy has taught at the university level, has been a political and
economic risk analyst for an international consulting firm, and has been
a Senior Associate with the U.S. Department of Education.

Cuddy has also testified before members of Congress
on behalf of the U.S. Department of Justice. Dr. Cuddy has authored or
edited twenty books and booklets, and has written hundreds of articles
appearing in newspapers around the nation, including The Washington Post,
Los Angeles Times and USA Today. He has been a guest on numerous radio
talk shows in various parts of the country, such as ABC Radio in New York
City, and he has also been a guest on the national television programs
USA Today and CBS's Nightwatch.

With these two underpinnings
of American society banned, the values still taught in the public schools
were determined by the morally autonomous decisionmaking of individual
students, which is an important characteristic of Dewey’s secular
humanism.